Room: Reoccurring things in "Room"

                                       I have just finished the incredibly intriguing, wonderful, and very original book, "Room", written by Emma Donoghue. It was about a five year old boy named Jack, living with his mother (whom he calls "Ma") in an 11' by 11' shed in a crazy kidnappers garden. Ma was kidnapped from her college campus when she was nineteen, had a child with her kidnapper and raised him in this room, letting him think that Room was the world, and that everything else was fake, or "outside" and not in the world. Jack was raised to believe that everyone on TV was fake, all the activities he saw on TV were fake, and the only "real" foods were the cheap, canned ones that Ma's kidnapper gives to them. None of these foods were very tasty, however they were the only foods Jack knew of. Jack's mother raised him very well. She made sure Jack could speak very well, write, read, draw, be athletic and be smart. Jack actually ended up being much smarter than the children he met when he finally left room!
                                         I noticed that in Room, there are several things that constantly reoccur. When Ma defends her parenting, and when Jack talks about things he doesn't know or was taught wrong.

                                       The first reoccurring thing I noticed was that Ma is constantly defending her parenting skills. She worked very hard to make Jack an educated kid on her own and wants people to be aware of that. For example, while Ma is being interviewed by a very obnoxious and pushy interviewer, she is questioned toward her parenting skills, and is told that Jack may have been taught wrong. Ma got incredibly defensive about this and insulted the interviewer.  Also, whenever Ma's mother asks her about how she raised Jack, Ma is defensive about her parenting and tells her mother she hasn't done anything wrong so far. I think Ma gets so defensive because she herself, is worried that she may have made Jack too confused about the real world, and wants others and herself to think that she is a perfect parent.

                                        The second reoccurring thing I noticed in Room was when Jack talks about things he doesn't know. Every time Jack experiences something new, he questions it. For example, Grandma says that he is having "too much fun" and needs to go to sleep. Then Jack says "I didn't know there was such a thing as too much fun". Also, when he buys the same book, and people tell him to get a different one, he says "I didn't know you're not supposed to buy the same books". These are very minor things that usually wouldn't catch the attention of the average person, but because Jack has missed out on so much of "real life" he questions these minor things.

                                    In conclusion, there are things in Room that constantly reoccur. When Ma is constantly defensive about her parenting skills, and how Jack is always questioning very minor things that he has missed out on.